Jun 23
Posted by: Marilyn in: Around Here, Blog, Business, Buzz, General Living, Health and Fitness, Money, Opinion, Product Reviews, Technology
Lasik is the newest technology in vision correction, and is gaining popularity across the country. The military has their pilots receive Lasik vision correction, and many sports figures are having the Lasik correction done in the hopes it will improve their performance and give them a competitive edge. I think that if a sports competitor [...]
Jun 23
Posted by: Marilyn in: Around Here, Blog, Buzz, General Living, Money, News, Opinion, Technology
According to an article I read on a Reuters website, a study was written by the Clean Edge and environmental nonprofit Co-op America that declared solar power will be cost competitive with fossil fuels like natural gas and coal by 2015. I think that this is wonderful news; I’d like to see a lot more alternative energy sources developed and expanded [...]
Jun 17
Posted by: Marilyn in: Around Here, Blog, Family, General Living, Opinion
My sister-in-law is in the reserves, and she was called up to go to Iraq about a year ago. We have been very anxious about her safety the entire time she was gone. Thank goodness for emails and telephones! We just heard that she is safely back in the US. Hopefully for good. We are [...]
I was browsing around the Internet today and found a story that broke my heart. It was a story from last week, on Thursday June 12, 2008, about how a man was putting his little dog into his car and a street sweeping machine came up behind them and swept the dog up inside the [...]
Jun 16
Posted by: Marilyn in: Around Here, Blog, General Living, Opinion, Venting
We have a neighbor that we think has been trying to do SOMETHING nasty regarding our dogs. Every now and then something not natural happens that is simply unexplainable without human involvement being a part of the picture. Every now and then the hooks that attach the cable ties to the stakes pounded in the [...]